Day: 23 June 2017

Music Video of the Day: Jack River “Fool’s Gold” (2017)

Ahead of the Electric Lady events kicking off at the end of the month and at the beginning of July on the east coast, Jack River has dropped a dreamy as hell music video for one of our favourite songs of hers, “Fool’s Gold”. Directed by Matt Sav (Tame Impala, POND), we see the lyrics of the pop song…

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Interview: Portugal. The Man’s Zach Carothers on Woodstock & self-loathing’s role in a creative process

Zach Carothers is recovering from a heavy night out in Chicago when he gets put on the phone to me. It was record release day for Portugal. The Man in Australia during our interview, but for Americans, they still had a few hours to get through. Still, Carothers is game for a delve into the new…

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Interview: Brian King on the burning out and reigniting of Japandroids

Japandroids will be back in the country in just a few weeks for their first headline tour of Australia since 2013. For those who remember the tour, you’re likely to associate euphoric sing alongs, a lot of sweat and bodies flung around with the type of show Brian King and David Prowse brought through off the back of…

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Single of the Day: Carmouflage Rose “Late Nights” (2017)

Brisbane’s Bedlam Records are generating a heated fusion of exciting and eclectic new music and in Carmouflage Rose‘s new single “Late Nights”, they’re proving once again that they are establishing themselves as a label to be watching. So to is Carmouflage Rose, a hip hop artist we’ve admittedly not heard too much from in the past, but have…

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Album Review: Portugal. The Man – Woodstock (2017 LP)

We’ve had a week now to sink our teeth into the eighth album from American group Portugal. The Man, an outfit I’ve been listening to now for almost a decade. Their evolution from 2009’s The Satanic Satanist to 2013’s Evil Friends is a remarkable one – seeing the group catapulted from unknowns to one of…

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Five Albums You Must Listen To This Week (#008)

This week’s album recommendation trip takes a look at Yon Yonson‘s stellar 2017 LP, Yes No Sorry, before throwing it back to 2011, when Battles released their colourful myriad of an album in Gloss Drop. Revisit some of our writers’ faves below and soundtrack the weekend ahead! YON YONSON – Yes No Sorry (2017) By Lucy Regter This trio out of…

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Five reasons Dark Mofo is now one of Australia’s must-have experiences

Buildings dressed in blood red lighting; hipsters running around a rocky, pitch-black industrial playground ducking in and out of old warehouses with a hot toddy in hand; inverted polly waffles cooked over campfires and handed out to shamelessly salivating foodies; a single helicopter performing impressive choreography over Hobart’s spectacular waterfront while being blasted by an…

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Largest permanent public artwork to date announced for Barangaroo in Sydney

The latest artwork to be announced for Sydney’s Barangaroo precinct will be created by German artist Sabine Hornig. The installation- which will include large-scale semitransparent images of local Sydney plants- will be Barangaroo’s largest permanent public art piece to date. Commissioned by The Lendlease Art Advisory under the Barangaroo PublicArt and Cultural Plan, the piece,…

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POPSART: La Boite’s HWY – Deconstructing ‘Australian-ness’ through theatre

Australian theatre is so male and white. Main stage subscriber theatre is irrelevant. Theatre is a boutique heritage industry. I have been having these conversations for years and to varying degrees these statements are true. But culture is not static, it grows and evolves and theatre is now transforming itself; driven by the artist that…

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Book Review: The Gulf is a powerfully crafted tale of childhood, resilience, and, above all, love

Skye’s mum has a new boyfriend. His name is Jason and they’re all moving to Port Flinders with him. But Jason is bad news, and Skye’s mum is in too deep, unable – or unwilling – to see the danger Skye and her little brother, walking animal fact factory Ben, are in. So Ben and…

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Dark Mofo’s fiery Winter Feast once again proves itself a foodie’s dream come true (Hobart)

Taking over Princes Wharf 1 for a total of seven nights during the festival, Winter Feast remains one of the most recognisable and accessible elements of Dark Mofo, a 13-day arts and music festival held in Hobart each June. It’s a night market if you want to paint a less inspired picture, but really it’s…

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